Taj Mahal
Also Known As: Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
Biography: Taj Mahal is an American blues musician, a self-taught singer-songwriter and film composer who plays the guitar, piano, banjo, and harmonica, among many other instruments.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Harlem, New York, USA
Birthday: May 17, 1942
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Gender: Male
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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Overview: Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos, a villain from the future, sends evil robot duplicates of the two lads to terminate and replace them. The robot doubles actually succeed in killing Bill and Ted, but the two are determined to escape the afterlife, challenging the Grim Reaper to a series of games in order to return to the land of the living.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-19
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Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz
Overview: "It must schwing!" was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records, the jazz label that was home to such greats as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins. Blue Note, the most successful movie ever made about jazz, is a testimony to the passion and vision of these two men and certainly swings like the propulsive sounds that made their label so famous.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-01
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Killer Diller
Overview: A guitar playing car thief meets an autistic savant piano player, and together they transform a group of reluctant halfway house convicts into The Killer Diller Blues Band.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Taj Mahal and Friends
Overview: Live! February 19th, 1987. Palomino Club, North Hollywood, California.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-10
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Outside Ozona
Overview: A widowed trucker fends off isolation in the company of a dog named Girl, two bickering sisters try to reconcile their differences and a down-and-out circus clown and his stripper girlfriend must fight the temptation of crime on the road. Their common companion is an angry disc jockey at odds with a desperate boss. All these people will find their lives intertwined by the hand of fate. And before the night gives way to day, some will breathe their last breath... Outside Ozona.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-18
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Scott Joplin
Overview: The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.
Genres: Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-11
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Feast Your Ears: The Story of WHFS 102.3 FM
Overview: Built out of “a pile of radio junk,” Bethesda, Maryland’s WHFS was a music fan’s dream of a radio station: the place on the dial to hear music listeners loved and new tunes they soon would, all with an anything-goes mentality and an ear for the sounds of social change. This doc pays loving tribute to free-form radio and WHFS’s influence over FM stations across the US from the 1960s to the 1980s. All good things come to an end, and so did the disc-jockey-driven format that WHFS pioneered and made successful, but its legacy lives on. The station’s DJs relate its history with passion in this film that captures the tenor of an era, abetted by reminiscences of performers including Emmylou Harris, Taj Mahal, Jesse Colin Young, and others whose music found its way to ears and minds eager for something more than the same old Top 40 programming.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-13
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Overview: A mother and daughter dispute is resolved by the "Yaya sisterhood" - long time friends of the mother.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-07
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A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
Overview: Song for Cesar is a documentary film with a unique view of the life and legacy of Cesar Chavez and the farmworker movement. The film tells a previously untold story about the musicians and artists who dedicated their time, creativity and even reputations to peacefully advance Cesar Chavez's movement to gain equality and justice for America's suffering farmworkers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-14
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The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains
Overview: The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain gang, attempted two daring escapes.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-31
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Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
Overview: This film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and depend on each other in a world where racist oppression is everywhere, as told by a boy called Cliff who spent his childhood there. Despite this, we see the life of the community in all its joys and sorrows, of those that live there while others decide to leave for a better life north. For those remaining, things come to a serious situation when one prominent businessman is being muscled out by a white competitor using racist intimidation. In response, the community must make the decision of whether to submit meekly like they always have, or finally fight for their rights.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-26
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Sounder
Overview: The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-24
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Santana: Special Edition EP
Overview: Track listing : 1 - Intro (1min05) 2 - TAJ MAHAL : Riverside (1min40) 3 - TAJ MAHAL : Sweet Mama Genise (1min16) 4 - TAJ MAHAL : Oh Susannah (3min30) 5 - JOHNNY WINTER : Johnny B. Goode (5min35) 6 - JOHNNY WINTER feat. EDGAR WINTER : Tell The Truth (5min23) 7 - IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY : Soapstone Mountain (5min10) 8 - IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY : White Bird (4min55) 9 - SANTANA : Medley (3min52) 10 - SANTANA : Soul Sacrifice (7min53)
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-25
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Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013
Overview: Captured across two nights at Madison Square Garden, the Crossroads Guitar Festival offers a variety of legendary guitarists performing a mix of sultry blues, classic rock and country jams.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-19
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Six Days Seven Nights
Overview: In the South Pacific island of Makatea, career-driven magazine editor Robin Monroe is on a week-long vacation getaway with her boyfriend, Frank Martin. An emergency work assignment in neighboring Tahiti requires Robin to hire the cantankerous pilot Quinn Harris who had flown them to Makatea on a small transport plane. While flying, a powerful storm forces Quinn to make an emergency landing on a nearby deserted island. The dissimilar pair avoid each other at first, until they're forced to team up to escape from the island -- and some pirates who want their heads.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-12
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Born to Be Wild: The Story of Steppenwolf
Overview: Steppenwolf is one of the most legendary and at the same time most enigmatic bands in the history of rock music. On the border between mainstream and psychedelic underground, their song "Born to Be Wild" became the anthem of an entire generation. The new, hard sound of Steppenwolf was a stab in the heart of the "Summer of Love" and put an end to the hippie era. It is no coincidence that they were the very first band to use the word "heavy metal" in their lyrics.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-07-04
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Blind Willie's Blues: A Documentary Film
Overview: Also known as Georgia Blues, this is a biopic of influential bluesman Blind Willie McTell.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-01
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Shake 'Em On Down
Overview: Shake ‘Em On Down is a one-hour documentary film which aims to tell the story of Fred McDowell, who was first recorded by Alan Lomax in 1959, traveled to Europe with the Rolling Stones in the mid-1960s, mentored Bonnie Raitt, and served as the cornerstone of the unique and enduring North Mississippi- style of blues music.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-01
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All My Friends - Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Gregg Allman
Overview: All My Friends: Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Gregg Allman captures a once-in-a-lifetime performance, honoring one of the most acclaimed and beloved icons in rock and roll history. A founding member of the Allman Brothers Band and successful solo artist in his own right, Allman possesses a voice that has resonated through four decades.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-06
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The American Epic Sessions
Overview: Jack White and T Bone Burnett invite today’s greatest artists to test their skills against the long-lost machine that recorded their musical idols and forebears. The producers have, over a decade rebuilt, a 1920s recording system, timed by a weight-driven system of clockwork gears. Stripped of the comforts and security of modern technology, Nas, Elton John, Alabama Shakes, Steve Martin Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, are among the artists who have three minutes and one chance to get their music etched into a revolving wax disc, before the weight hits the floor. The results are career defining performances and the very definition of "Lighting In A Bottle".
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-16
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The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
Overview: A 1968 event put together by The Rolling Stones. The film is comprised of two concerts on a circus stage and included such acts as The Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and Jethro Tull. John Lennon and his fiancee Yoko Ono performed as part of a supergroup called The Dirty Mac, along with Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell, and Keith Richards.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-12
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Sounder, Part 2
Overview: Poor black sharecroppers band together to build a school for their children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-13
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ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads
Overview: Robert Johnson was one of the most influential blues guitarists ever. Even before his early death, fans wondered if he'd made a pact with the Devil.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-26
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Songcatcher
Overview: After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There she stumbles upon the discovery of her life - a treasure trove of ancient Scots-Irish ballads, songs that have been handed down from generation to generation, preserved intact by the seclusion of the mountains. With the goal of securing her promotion, Lily ventures into the most isolated areas of the mountains to collect the songs and finds herself increasingly enchanted.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-01
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ACL Presents: Americana Music Festival 2014
Overview: Austin City Limits (ACL) heads to Nashville for a special broadcast featuring performance highlights from this year’s Americana Honors & Awards. ACL Presents: Americana Music Festival 2014 premieres this Saturday, November 22, on PBS stations across the United States and includes performances from Robert Plant and Ry Cooder, among many others. The show was recorded live at the Americana Music Association's 13th Annual Honors & Awards ceremony at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium in September.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-22
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Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band
Overview: A confessional, cautionary, and occasionally humorous tale of Robbie Robertson's young life and the creation of one of the most enduring groups in the history of popular music, The Band.
Genres: History Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-21
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Mr. Handy's Blues
Overview: Mr. Handy's Blues is the never before told story of W.C. Handy, known worldwide as The Father of the Blues. The film features performances of Handy's songs by current artists including Taj Mahal, Bobby Rush and Gary Nichols.
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Original Language: en
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Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life
Overview: Buffy Sainte-Marie is best known for her protest songs (Universal Soldier) and her love songs (Up Where We Belong). This one-hour documentary chronicles her remarkable career as she rises to prominence in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene and blazes a groundbreaking path as an Aboriginal-rights advocate, digital artist and Oscar-winning songwriter.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-01
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Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Overview: Documentary about the role of Native Americans in popular music history, a little-known story built around the incredible lives and careers of the some of the greatest music legends.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-26
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This Ain't No Mouse Music!
Overview: Loving, music-filled tribute to Chris Strachwitz, guiding force behind legendary roots music label Arhoolie Records. With Ry Cooder, Clifton Chenier, Richard Thompson, Flaco Jiménez and a new generation of roots musicians.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-26
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Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson
Overview: Robbie Robertson. Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson will take place on Thursday, October 17, 2024, at the Kia Forum, in Los Angeles, CA, featuring once-in-a-lifetime performances with an incredible lineup of superstar artists, including Trey Anastasio, Ryan Bingham, Mike Campbell, Eric Church, Eric Clapton, Elvis Costello, Warren Haynes, Bruce Hornsby, Jim James, Jamey Johnson, Noah Kahan, Daniel Lanois, Taj Mahal, Van Morrison, Margo Price, Robert Randolph, Nathaniel Rateliff, Allison Russell, Mavis Staples, Benmont Tench, Don Was, Bobby Weir, and Lucinda Williams.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
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Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival 2023
Overview: Eric Clapton, one of the world’s pre-eminent blues/rock guitarists, once again summoned an all-star team of six-string heroes for his seventh Crossroads Guitar Festival in 2023. Held at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California, the two-day concert event raised funds for the Crossroads Centre in Antigua, the chemical dependency treatment and education facility that Clapton founded in 1998. With actor Bill Murray as the Master of Ceremonies, the 2023 festival featured outstanding performances by Clapton, Joe Bonamassa, Gary Clark Jr., Sheryl Crow, Eric Gales, H.E.R., Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Los Lobos, John Mayer, The Marcus King Band, Roger McGuinn, John McLaughlin, Santana, The Wallflowers, and many more.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-29
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